medium sized and large groups and show that neighborhood choice indeed leads to coordination on the fully efficient …

altruistic punishment by using public goods experiments. We conducted the experiments in Turkey at different points in time; one … punishment among individuals during Ramadan, even when the degree of their religiosity varied. However, less religious people did …

Recent experiments show that public goods can be provided at high levels when mutual monitoring and costly punishment … are allowed. All these experiments, however, study monitoring and punishment in a setting where all agents can monitor and …

willingness of some team members to engage in the costly punishment of shirkers. This alternative does not require small group …

Because costly punishment is not credible, subgame perfection suggests that punishment will not deter free riding … strategies seen in the lab and use the simulation to develop hypotheses about why group size should matter when punishment is … rates no lower than small groups because punishment does not fall appreciably in large groups. However, hindrances to …

punishment behavior. Our study uses experiments conducted with 525 officers in the Swiss Army, and exploits random assignment to … prisoner's dilemma game with in-group as opposed to out-group members. They also use a costly punishment option to selectively … stronger in-group cooperation, but also a qualitative change in punishment: punishment becomes antisocial, harming cooperative …

We study the impact of communication on behavior in a two-stage coordination game with asymmetric payoffs. We test … sustain coordination over time and alleviate the inequality induced by the asymmetry of payoffs. Third, communication …

, and we examine how often a sanction leads to a lower occupational level. The data cover the Swedish population over 1999 … includes a policy change in which the punishment severity was reduced. We find that the hourly wage and the number of hours are … on average lower after a sanction, and that individuals move more often to a lower occupational level, incurring human …

punishment is widely agreed to be potentially useful in fostering cooperation, many recent results in psychology and economics … promoting social norms. We show here, using experiments with human subjects, that public implementation of punishment can … interests, we find that privately implemented punishment reduces cooperation relative to a baseline treatment without punishment …